"I went and spoke to staff about the IT system who had to endure it last year and apologised," he said. "There is no doubt that the current IT system isn't meeting need, from a TAFE perspective there is a deadline in the first half of this year [for it to perform].

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"We need to make sure it does what it needs to do and that like the rest of TAFE is accountable. At the moment, the dollars it receives against the enrolments it takes in has been a struggle for us".

Fairfax Media understands that at this stage the TAFE enrolment process for 2016 is operating more efficiently than last year.

The TAFE enrollment process is reportedly operating more efficiently than last year.

Mr Barilaro said his department evaluating the LMBR system. "We will make a definitive decision in the first half of this year where to next with IT in TAFE," he said.

Despite the damning assessment, the state's education department is continuing to back the system, which could blow out to $1 billion in costs by the time it is fully implemented, according to NSW Labor.

More than a year later, the state's auditor general found little had improved with the system, delivering a scathing criticism of the bungled rollout in December.

"The department has failed to consistently meet time, budget and quality requirements for the Learning Management and Business Reform information technology project [and] has not demonstrated how the LMBR will achieve its expected benefit " said acting auditor-general Tony Whitfield.

In August the NSW budget estimates committee heard the cost of the LMBR could have built up to 20 new schools.

A spokeswoman for NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said the solutions being delivered by the LMBR program will directly benefit more than 2,200 schools.

"LMBR is on track with the commencement of the rollout to the remaining schools from the first half of the 2016 school year," she said.